01/07/2023

Please see list of NC1198 2022 publications attached.

12/05/2023

NC1198 publications – 2023

 

Objective 1

• Lloyd, S., Miller, M., (CIAS UW-Madison). “Supporting agroecological transitions in food systems: insights from a comparison of agrifood policies’ trajectories in 5 countries,”


• Howard, P.H., Conner, D.S., Ostrom, M.R., Miller^, “Apples to Advocacy: Evaluating Consumer Preferences for Hard Cider Policies,” Journal of Wine Economics.


• Gwin, L., Miller, M., Lowe, E., Hoy, C., Cohen, N., Pirog, R, Tomich, T., Kelly, T. “Resilience strategies for centers and institutes focused on food systems transformation,” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development(in review).


• Haedicke, Michael A. “Organic as Civic Engagement Revisited: Civic Codes, Deliberative Practices, and the Debate about Hydroponic Certification.” Agriculture and Human Values.


• Conway, T. and Teller, A. Care methodologies to evaluate and advance just perennial transitions in agriculture (Kernza case study); related: Towards a practical theory for commercializing novel continuous living cover crops: a conceptual review through the lens of Kernza perennial grain, 2019–2022. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.


• Haynes Stein, A., & Brinkley, C. (2023). Farm to Food Bank: Exploring the Ties between Local Food Producers and Charitable Food Assistance. Rural Sociology.


• Fuchs-Chesney, J., Raj, S., Daruwalla, T., & Brinkley, C. (2023). All roads lead to the farmers market?: using network analysis to measure the orientation and central actors in a community food system through a case comparison of Yolo and Sacramento County, California. Agriculture and Human Values, 40(1), 157-173.


• Melo-Velasco, Jenny and Mary Hendrickson. (Forthcoming.) “The digital agriculture revolution: What to consider to make it work for small or marginalized farmers?” Proceedings of the National Conference on Next-Generation Sustainable Technologies for Small-Scale Producers. Atlantis Press, a division of Springer Nature.


• Adalja, A. * and Baur, P., * M. Weidman, E.M. Olimpi, and D.L. Weller. In press. Preharvest food safety and conservation challenges facing US produce growers: Results from a national survey. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems.


• Jeffrey Liebert, Rebecca Benner, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Thomas Björkman, Sasha Gennet, Miguel I. Gómez, Abigail K. Hart, Claire Kremen, Alison Power, Matthew R. Ryan, Kathryn Teigen De Master. “Farm size affects the use of agroecological practices on organic farms in the United States” 2022. Nature Plants, Vol 8, Issue 8.


• Neidecker (MS student), A. Bruce (Chair), H. Darby, M. Hoffman, M. Miller, and T. Safford (Committee Members). From Seed to Sourdough and Barley to Beer: Understanding structure, partnership strategies, and governance mechanisms in three Northeast grain value chains.  

 

Objective 2

• Stevens, A., Teal, J. 2023. “Diversification and resilience of firms in the agrifood supply chain,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12398


• Stevens, A. “Predicting firm diversification in agri-food value chains” (Working Paper)


• Peterson, H.H., Miller, M., Stevens. (2023). “Impacts of COVID-19 on US agri-food supply chain businesses: Regional survey results”. PLOS ONE https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281930


• Miller, M., Peterson, HH., Stevens, AW. (2023) “Pandemic Production: Impacts of COVID-19 on Florida’s fruit and vegetable industries.” Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization. https://doi.org/10.1515/jafio-2022-0025


• Raj, S., Brinkley, C., & Ulimwengu, J. (2022). Connected and extracted: Understanding how centrality in the global wheat supply chain affects global hunger using a network approach. Plos One, 17(6), e0269891.


• Brinkley, C., & Wagner, J. (2022). Who Is Planning for Environmental Justice—and How? Journal of the American Planning Association, 1-14.


• Ory, J., A. Iles, P. Baur, and F. Castillo. In press. Adapting to Pandemic Stresses: Experiences Among Central Coast Organic Farmers. California Agriculture.


• Cunningham, N., Conner, D. & Reynolds, T. (2023). Anchor Institutions and Food Resilience: A Multiple Streams Approach. International Journal of Food System Dynamics 14 (2), 2023, 134-145.


• Whitehouse, C., Conner, D., Chase, L., & Reynolds, T. (2023). The experience of Vermont local food businesses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 12(2), 201–214. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2023.122.003


• Cunningham, N., Conner, D., Whitehouse, C., Blair, H., & Krueger, J. (2022). Beyond procurement: Anchor institutions and adaptations for resilience. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 11(3), 57–73. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2022.113.006

 

Objective 3

• Michelle Miller, Smart Foodsheds work with NSF ICICLE 
  
  
  
  • ​​Tu, Y., Wang, X., Qui, R., Shen, HW, Miller, M., Rao, J., Gao, S., Huber, P., Hollander, A., Lange, M., Garcia, C., Stubbs, J. (2023). “An Interactive Knowledge and Learning Environment in Smart Foodsheds”. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. DOI: 1109/MCG.2023.3263960
  
  
  • Qu, Y, Rao, J., Gao, S., Zhang, W.C., Su, Y., Miller, M., Morales, A., Huber, P. (submitted). FLEE-GNN: A Federated Learning System for Edge-Enhanced Graph Neural Network in Analyzing Geospatial Resilience of Multicommodity Food Flows”, ACM SIGSpatial 2023
  
  
  
  


• Sarah Lloyd, Michelle Miller Grasslands 2.0 (participating in Policy Team for GL2.0, recent Frontiers paper by Policy lead, Rissman et al. 2023) Also state legislation at  https://www.cleanwisconsin.org/clean-wisconsin-works-on-grazing-legislation/


• Pesci, S., & Brinkley, C. (2022). Can a Farm-to-Table restaurant bring about change in the food system?: A case study of Chez Panisse. Food, Culture & Society, 25(5), 997-1018.


• Brinkley, C., & Visser, M. A. (2022). Socioeconomic and environmental indicators for rural communities: Bridging the scholarly and practice gap. Economic Development Quarterly, 36(2), 75-91.


• Banginwar, A, Antonio, D, Lopez, M, Poirier, L, Ghosh, S, Dettmann, M, et al. General Plan Database Mapping Tool (v3.0). Zenodo. plansearch.caes.ucdavis.edu. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7508689


• Staples, A., Howard, P., Conner, D., Sirrine, J., Ostrom, M., Miller, M. (2023). Apples to advocacy: Evaluating consumer preferences for hard cider policies. Journal of Wine Economics, November, 1-16.https://doi.org/10.1017/jwe.2023.29

 

12/07/2024

Objective 1-Market Structure

A Haynes Stein, C Brinkley. Farm to Food Bank: Exploring the Ties between Local Food Producers and Charitable Food Assistance☆ Rural Sociology 88 (3), 682-707

J Fuchs-Chesney, S Raj, T Daruwalla, C Brinkley. All roads lead to the farmers market?: using network analysis to measure the orientation and central actors in a community food system through a case comparison of Yolo and … Agriculture and Human values 40 (1), 157-173

Gerhart, Jennifer Anne, and Philip H. Howard. 2023. Assessing the profitability of scaling up for retail access: Lessons from local salad mix in Southeast Michigan. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 12(4), 1-18. https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/1173

Ashwood, Loka and Phil Howard. 2023. Sorting out ownership questions – the ultimately unclear beneficiaries of power in industrial agriculture. Institutional Landscapes. February 18. http://institutionallandscapes.org/contribution/5-sorting-out-ownership-questions-the-ultimately-unclear-beneficiaries-of-power-in-industrial-agriculture/

Worosz, M.R. and M. Dupuis. 2024. Farming with a mission: The case of nonprofit farms. Agriculture and Human Values. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-024-10588-x).

Stevens, A. W., J. Teal, C. D. Court, G. DiGiacomo, M. Miller, & H. H. Peterson (forthcoming). Predicting Firm Diversification in Agri-Food Value Chains. Journal of Food Distribution Research.

Miller, M., Hirsch, R., Chang, J., Shi, J., Long, D. (in review) “Transportation Issues Affecting Fresh Food Distribution: A Comparison Study of Urban vs Rural United States”. Transportation Research.

Miller, M. (2024) Foodsheds and Regional Food Systems. In: Abraham, Martin A. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies, 2nd Edition, vol. 2, pp. 613–622. Oxford: Elsevier. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90386-8.00083-08

Claire Lamine (INRAE), Eric Sabourin (CIRAD), Fabienne Barataud (INRAE), Tara Wight (LWA), Terry Marsden (Cardiff Un.), Paulo Niederle (UFRGS), Claudia Schmitt (UFRRJ), Adanella Rossi (Pisa Un.), Patrizia Pugliese (CIHEAM Bari), Sarah Loyd (CIAS UW-Madison), Michelle Miller (CIAS UW-Madison), Danièle Magda (INRAE) (forthcoming) “Supporting agroecological transitions in food systems: insights from a comparison of agrifood policies’ trajectories in 5 countries”, Agriculturas

Neidecker (MS student), A. Bruce (Chair), H. Darby, M. Hoffman, M. Miller, and T. Safford (Committee Members). From Seed to Sourdough and Barley to Beer: Understanding structure, partnership strategies, and governance mechanisms in three Northeast grain value chains.  

Objective 2 - Resilience

Ingram, Mrill. 2023. "Building Cover Crop Expertise with Citizen Science: Supporting farmer innovation in a time of change." Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Section Agroecology and Ecosystem Services Volume 7 - 2023 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1045769

C Brinkley, S Raj, S Raja. Planning for FEWsheds: the role of planning in integrating and strengthening food, energy and water systems. Journal of Planning Literature 38 (1), 33-58

Welsh, R., Amy K. Bentley, Lawrence Lam, Stefan Grimberg and Shane Rogers. 2024. “Anaerobic Digester Technology for Small-to-Moderate-Sized Dairy Farms: Constraints and Solutions.” In Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Elsevier Inc.

Stevens, A. W. & J. Teal (2024). Diversification and resilience of firms in the agrifood supply chain. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 106(2), 739–778.

Laura Vang Rasmussen, Ingo Grass, Zia Mehrabi, Olivia M Smith, Rachel Bezner-Kerr, Jennifer Blesh, Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi, Marney E Isaac, Christina M Kennedy, Hannah Wittman, Péter Batáry, Damayanti Buchori, Rolando Cerda, Julián Chará, David W Crowder, Kevin Darras, Kathryn DeMaster, Karina Garcia, Manuel Gómez, David Gonthier, Aidee Guzman, Purnama Hidayat, Juliana Hipólito, Mark Hirons, Lesli Hoey, Dana James, Innocensia John, Andrew D Jones, Daniel S Karp, Yodit Kebede, Carmen Bezner Kerr, Susanna Klassen, Martyna Kotowska, Holger Kreft, Ramiro Llanque, Christian Levers, Diego J Lizcano, Adrian Lu, Sidney Madsen, Rosebelly Nunes Marques, Pedro Buss Martins, America Melo, Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Elissa M Olimpi, Jeb P Owen, Heiber Pantevez, Matin Qaim, Sarah Redlich, Christoph Scherber, Amber R Sciligo, Sieglinde Snapp, William E Snyder, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Anne Elise Stratton, Joseph M Taylor, Teja Tscharntke, Vivian Valencia, Cassandra Vogel, Claire Kremen. "Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture," 2024, Science, Volume 384, Issue 6691. 

Miller, M., Konar, M., Peterson, H., Court, C., Shakya, S., Stevens, A. (in review) “Measuring Food Supply Network Resilience: Centrality in perishable food distribution networks in the United States”. Environmental Research: Food Systems, Special Issue: Focus on Trade and Food Systems

Miller, M., Konar, M. (2024). “U.S. Food Flows: A Coldchain Network Analysis of Freight Movements to Inform Local and Regional Food Issues”. A report prepared for the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation Services Division. https://doi.org/10.21231/qfx4-4f67

Gwin, L., Miller, M., Lowe, E., Hoy, C., Cohen, N., Pirog, R, Tomich, T., Kelly, T.. “Resilience strategies for centers and institutes focused on food systems transformation”, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development.

Objective 3 - Policy

L Poirier, D Antonio, M Dettmann, T Eng, J Ganata, S Ghosh, M Lopez, C Brinkley ...Making plans findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable with data infrastructure: A search engine for constructing, analyzing, and visualizing planning documents. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 23998083241227471

Staples, A., Howard, P., Conner, D., Sirrine, J., Ostrom, M., & Miller, M. (2023). Apples to advocacy: Evaluating consumer preferences for hard cider policies. Journal of Wine Economics, 1-16. doi:10.1017/jwe.2023.29

Stevens, A. W., J. Teal, C. D. Court, G. DiGiacomo, M. Miller, & H. H. Peterson (forthcoming). Predicting Firm Diversification in Agri-Food Value Chains. Journal of Food Distribution Research.

Clark, L., Luistro, A., Ares, G., Miller, M., Baraibar, M., Ncwadi, M. (2024) “Global Action to End Hunger: Prospects for 2030”, Performance Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2023.2363155

11/25/2025

Objective 1-Market Structure

Whitehouse, C., Conner, D., & Moen, A. (2025). Overcoming the “Game of Pennies:” Challenges and Opportunities for Farm to Institution in Vermont. Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, 20(5), 678–695. https://doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2025.2468332

Neidecker, E., Safford, T., Hoffman, M., Darby, H., Miller, M., Bruce, A., (2025). Not a “Siloed Effort": Partnership Strategies Supporting Regional Grain Value Chains in the Upper Northeast. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/1433

Zhang, Q., Paul, D., Miller, M., Morales, M., Gao, S. (at press). Scalable Inter-County Food Flow Prediction Using Graph Neural Networks [Application]. 33rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025)

Santa González, R.,White III, CC, Miller, M., Lloyd, S., Roberts-Turner, T. (2025). From Farm to Food Hub: Analyzing Logistics in Cooperative Agricultural Systems. Proceedings of the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2025 E. Gentry, F. Ju, X. Liu, eds.

Miller, M., Konar, M., Peterson, H., Court, C., Shakya, S., Stevens, A. (2025) “Network centrality in perishable food distribution networks in the United States”. Environmental Research: Food Systems, Special Issue: Focus on Trade and Food Systems. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2976-601X/add01c

Brinkley, C., Ulimwengu, J., Raj, S. (2025) Real and simulated shocks to the food system: a nested food-economic system model for assessing resilience using a networked Input-Output approach. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.

Fuchs-Chesney, J., Raj, S., Daruwalla, T., & Brinkley, C. (2025). All roads lead to the farmers market?: using network analysis to measure the orientation and central actors in a community food system through a case comparison of Yolo and Sacramento County, California. Agriculture and Human Values, 40(1), 157-173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10345-y

Stein, A. and Brinkley, C. (2025). Farm to Food Bank: Exploring the Ties between Local Food Producers and Charitable Food Assistance. Rural Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12489

Objective 2 - Resilience

Conner, D. (2025). How to address resource inequity in collaborative work: Reflections on partnerships between Vermont and Puerto Rico. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 14(2), 355–365. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2025.142.021

Budowle, R., Cousineau, B., Miller, M., Grossman, J., Phipps, B. (at press). Strategic Storytelling: Reflecting on the Past, Present & Future of INFAS. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development.

Lowe, E., Gwin, L., Miller, M. (in review) Sustainable agriculture and food-focused centers and institutes at large US research institutions. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development.

Rodriguez, S.; Kagawa, R.; Vaitla, B; Koundinya, V.; Choe, D.; Brinkley, C. (2025). Guaranteed income: a policy landscape review of 105 programs in the United States. Basic Income Studies. 20 (1): 93-123. 10.1515/bis-2023-0030

Cadieux, K.V., Tacheny, J., and Keefe, S. (2025). Relational, logistical, and pedagogical considerations in developing urban food cultivation *land school* programs for repairing food ecologies in a cross-campus food access/action coalition. William Moseley, Dan Trudeau, and Paul Schadewald, Eds., Gleanings from the Field: Food Security, Resilience and Experiential Learning, Lever Press.

https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/3f4628695?locale=en#/6/38

Cadieux, K.V., and Ranpura, J. (2025). Pedagogy of Mess: Taking action despite uncertainty. William Moseley, Dan Trudeau, and Paul Schadewald, eds., Gleanings from the Field: Food Security, Resilience and Experiential Learning, Lever Press. https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/3f4628695?locale=en#/6/50[ch24]!/4/2[c17]/2/2/2[p244]/1:0

Objective 3 - Policy

Klancy, Kate. 2025. A History of the Agriculture of the Middle Multi-state Research Project. 

Miller, M. (2025). National Freight Strategic Plan 2025 Update: Request for Information. US Department of Transportation. 7/15/2025. Docket No. DOT-OST-2025-0369. Comment tracking number me3-cyru-llgp. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/15/2025-13219/national-freight-strategic-plan-2025-update-request-for-information; comment can found at https://www.regulations.gov/comment/DOT-OST-2025-0369-0014

Raj, S, Momoh, E, and Brinkley, C. (2025) “Teaching Rapid Plan Evaluation” Journal of Planning Education and Research.

Fu, Xinyu; Sanchez, T. Chaosuli, Li; Brinkley, C. (2024). Text mining public feedback on urban densification plan change in Hamilton, New Zealand. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 52(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/239980832412720

Poirier, L., Antonio, D.; Dettman, M., Eng, T.; Ganata, J.; Ghosh, S.; Lopez, M.; Karma, R.; Natekal, A.; Brinkley, C. (2024). Making plans FAIR with data infrastructure: a search engine for constructing, analyzing, and visualizing planning documents. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 51(8). https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083241227471

Tornaghi, C., Dehaene, M., Cadieux, K.V., López-García, D., Nicklay, J., Byles, H., Fried, H., Winter, K., Rayns, F. (2025) Healing people, soils and science through ‘urban soil remediation’ research? A conversation in transdisciplinary agroecology research. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/21683565.2025.2573371?needAccess=true

Valliant, J., O’Neill, M., & J. Freedgood. (2025). Bipartisan creation of Land Access Policy Incentives: US efforts to support beginning farmers and resist farm consolidation and loss. Agriculture & Human Values 42:421-39.

Valliant, J., O’Neill, M., Macagno, A., Zebrowski, W., Lubben, B., & J. Freedgood. (In review). The effects and reach of U.S. states’ Beginning Farmer Tax Credits: Incentivizing landowners to rent or sell land to young grain farmers. Land Use Policy

O’Neill, M., Valliant, J., & J. Freedgood (In review). U.S. states’ coupled investments in young farmers’ landownership and farmland protection: Farmer survey evidence of food systems resiliency efforts. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Ross, J., Zebrowski, W., & J. Valliant. (In review). Do tax incentives for farmland supply induce new farm start-ups? Evidence from Iowa’s Beginning Farmer Tax Credit. Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy

Horst, M., Valliant, J., & J. Freedgood. (2024). An evaluation of the federal Transition Incentives Program on land access for next-generation farmers. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 13(2): 73–90